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REPTON, Humphry (1752-1818) and John Adey REPTON (1775-1860). Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture . London: T. Bensley and Son for J. Taylor, 1816. First edition of Repton's final great work on landscape gardening. In the introduction Repton bemoans the effect of the Napoleonic war on landscape gardening (financial rather than physical) and defines the subject as: 'the pleasing combination of Art and Nature adapted to the use of Man.' Abbey Scenery 391; Tooley 398. Quarto (345 x 277 mm). Half-title. 43 plates, comprising: one wood-engraved and letterpress plan, 21 hand-coloured aquatints [of which 2 double page, 8 with overslips], 6 tinted aquatints [one with overslips], 13 aquatints [2 with overslips]; 27 text-illustrations, comprising: 9 aquatints [2 with overslips], 18 wood-engravings (pl. 20 and a couple of other plates with faint marginal soiling). Contemporary diced russia (rebacked preserving original gilt spine, extremities lightly rubbed).